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just say no to Nyquist.

Yes. Chris Yzerman.

Here's a couple of revenge scenarios that would make me happy, with respect to RFA offer sheets. - Marner get's max deal offer sheet from NYI and the club (and Lou) and fans get to stick it to the Leafs for poaching Tavares - Detroit offers Aho a contract just under 10M (negating the required 4 1st rounders). Carolina would match this right? If the deal was front-loaded with 20M in signing bonuses over the first 12 month period, that might make things more interesting. 20M is approx what Carolina make in one season of gate revenue. lol (I thank Gord Miller for this insite). This would, of course, be the ultimate revenge for the Fedorov offer sheet in 98.

Zadina was technically an underage pro last season, so he does not need protection. If he had played that 10th NHL game, he would need to be protected, which was the reason he was limited to 9 games last season. I guess that's what would make Seider or any other underage prospects playing pro last season exempt as well.

Exactly. This ex draft is coming at the perfect time for the Wings. If Seattle joined the league in 22-23 instead, there would be much butt clinching

Well the lad can skate

One guy had Seider as high as #8. So hes not a left field type of reach. Yzerman drafted the guy he felt had the best chance of turning into a number 1D. A move i didnt like on kneejerk reaction, but a move I dig now.

Still pretty excited about this guy. Also I find myself going "wow" a lot when Hronek scores. Dude shoots rockets.

Think svechnikov will be an nhler Just was very unfortunate he had to lose a whole year , hopefully the injury won’t affect his play then again wtf do I know i Thought Jurco would be a solid player for us and I’m still kinda surprised he hasn’t been able to find a spot on a team

It just tells me that Yzerman was not on the Broberg Train, or he would've traded back to 10 and if Holland took Seider, then he just would've taken Broberg. But instead he just took Seider. Thats it, that is probably his reasoning. He wanted D, wasn't impressed with Broberg, and didn't have any other D ranked high enough to draft at 10. He didn't want to gamble and make the Vancouver trade and risk Holland taking Seider. Funny, I've seen on Twitter some so called "experts" giving The Red Wings a grade of D- or F when it comes to the draft. Relax experts, nobody drafts in accordance with you. Here's a comparison. I can image what our "grade" was after the 1989 draft. Pretend you all don't know how 1989 turned out for us and then loo at it like you're looking at the 2019 draft. Keep in mind Russians were never going to come over to the NHL, especially defecting from The Red Army. Sure, Mike Sillinger was probably the BPA at #11, considering his stats, and despite playing so many games, he never brought these stats to the NHL: Bob Bougher had some impressive stats as well for a D, but again, never really translated to the NHL and never played a single game in Detroit, and never an NHL games until 1995-96. Here are his junior stats: ...and considering Nick Lidstrom's stats were not "wham bam, thank you ma'am" nobody probably thought that he was on an outstanding pick either: ...again, The Russian's were never going to come over, so The Wings probably got laughed at when they chose Fedorov and Konstantinov. But look at this draft and tell me that it wasn't graded much higher than a D. Dallas Drake being one of thoise late round steals (too bad, not all 1000 games for the Red Wings though.) Of course, everyone in the world knows how it turned out after 20 years! In hindsight this was an A++++++++ draft. Here's to hoping that a few of our picks this year make 2019 a home run as well! I,like many of you preferred somebody else at #6. I was really hoping for Cozins since he was there, but who's to say that Seider isn't (not saying he's Lidstrom) another Lidstrom? When Lidstrom was drafted, see above, his stats didn't scream 7 Norris Trophies, 4 Stanley Cups, 11 All-Star Games, over 1500 games played, number retired....you get where I'm going. Let's just see which direction Seider is going within the next 3-4 years before everyone calls Yzerman a moron. Ya?

Luongo's retirement: Canucks are getting hammered. 3M against the cap for each of the next three seasons.

Some thoughts. Yzerman said he explored trading back but nobody wanted to "Should have been picked later" is subject to debate, is based mostly on opinion, and generally changes after a few years. Lidstrom "should have been" picked #1 overall. "Yzerman "shouldn't have" slid to #4. Yzerman personally scouted Seider and liked what he saw, I'll trust him until he shows he shouldn't be trusted.

I'd also consider Hicketts a kid. Same age as as Larkin, but I don't consider him a kid. It's complicated.

Yzerman?

Ah. Gotcha. For sure.

I agree that we're not really in a spot to make offers to UFAs. I was just having fun with the idea. Not sure what you mean about the Canucks......?

Yeah, it is professional seasons, not NHL seasons. Two or fewer seasons would not need protection. I'm not sure how it would work for players that played in pro leagues prior to being drafted... Technically Seider will have played three pro seasons prior to the expansion draft (2021), but I'm not sure if that first year would count where he wasn't yet drafted?... I don't think it would count though. If that were the case, technically Zadina would need protection too since he played 25 games in the Czech league in 2016-17...

Yes, Cholowski would need protection. On the back end, it would like be Hronek, Cholowski and one of DeKeyser, Bowey or Lindstrom... Up front, Larkin, Mantha, Athanasiou, Bertuzzi, Rasmussen, Svechnikov, and one of Glendening, Turgeon or Smith... We won't be losing any major pieces in the Seattle expansion draft.

Just because a player doesn't get qualified, doesn't necessarily mean they'll make it to UFA. Reports say that Dallas still intends to negotiate with Hartman. Funny he's about to come back from a vacation to find out he's not handed a qualifying offer... With a different team.

Can't wait to topple Persia for reasons

Well, I am now ready for Darth Seider to start proving me wrong.